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GuluWalk uses social media to raise over $4 million

Social Media logosOn October 25th roughly 25,000 people in 75 cities across the globe gathered in groups to walk a dozen kilometres, at dawn. These “walkers” were replicating the night commuters of northern Uganda, children as many as 40,000 — walking from their rural villages into the town of Gulu and other urban centres to avoid abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).(Globe and Mail, Charities Finally Cashing in on Web 2.0 Revolution, Joanna Pachner)

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